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The AMS workshop presented research results and working papers in the areas of active net works, mobile and intelligent agents, software tools for high performance distributed computing, network operating systems, and application pro gramming models and environments.

As we stand at the precipice of the twenty first century the ability to capture and transmit copious amounts of information is clearly a defining feature of the human race. The recent IPMU conference held at La Sorbonne in Paris brought together some of the world's leading experts in uncertainty and information fusion.

This book introduces several state-of-the-art VLSI implementations of artificial neural networks (ANNs). The work of Professors Fakhraie and Smith, presented in this book, is a welcome addition to the state-of-the-art and will greatly benefit researchers and students working in this area.

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, my UC Berkeley advisor, had been a consultant at IBM, I re ceived a copy of the original IBM internal report on simulated annealing approximately the day of its release.

This volume proposes novel transmission techniques that achieve multi-path mitigation, through orthogonal frequency-domain processing, in combination with a high bandwidth efficiency, through space division multiple access.

Scalar diffraction from a circular aperture is a ubiquitous problem that arises in a variety of disciplines, such as optics (lenses), acoustics (speakers), electromagnetics (dish antennas), and ultrasonics (piston transducers).

Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis investigates the problem of automatic natural language understanding in a spoken language dialog system.

The main research directions in robot learning covered in this book include: reinforcement learning, behavior-based architectures, neural networks, map learning, action models, navigation and guided exploration.

Digital BiCMOS Integrated Circuit Design is the first book devoted entirely to the analysis and design of digital BiCMOS integrated circuits.

Application Specific Processors is written for use by engineers who are developing specialized systems (application specific systems). The first five chapters relate to specific arithmetic which often is the key to achieving high performance in application specific processors.

Conditional Monte Carlo: Gradient Estimation and Optimization Applications deals with various gradient estimation techniques of perturbation analysis based on the use of conditional expectation.

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains fully refereed papers from the 15th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing.

Talks about fuzzy If-Then rules as they are being applied in computational intelligence. This book includes theoretical developments and applications related to If-Then problems of propositional calculus, fuzzy predicate calculus, implementations of the generalized Modus Ponens, approximate reasoning, data mining and data transformation, and more.

This growth is commonplace for wireless service companies throughout the world, and in the U.S., where as many as 7 licensed wireless service providers may be competing for cellularlPCS customers within the next couple of years, differentiators in cost, qual ity, service, and coverage will become critical to customer acceptance and use.

Presents the theory and the corresponding CMOS implementation of the novel multirate sampled-data analog interpolation technique. In order to tackle physical IC imperfections at very high frequency, this work discusses the circuit design and layout techniques for high-speed Switched-Capacitor (SC) circuits.

The model is illustrated by dimensioning the unit current cell of a current-steering D/A converter.The most commonly used methods to extract the matching properties of a technology are bench-marked with respect to model accuracy, measurement accuracy and speed, and physical contents of the extracted parameters.

Aims to help designers in speeding up telecommunication frontend design by offering an understanding of the frontend's behavior together with methods and algorithms that support designers in bringing this understanding to practice. This book treats topics such as time-varying phase-locked loop stability, noise in mixing circuits, and others.

The Analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) is the most pervasive block in electronic systems. This book presents an overview of the methods and procedures employed for characterising ADCs dynamic performance behaviour using sinusoidal stimuli. It describes the three classical methods - histogram, sine wave fitting, and spectral analysis.

DAPSY (Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems) is an international conference series with biannual events dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing.

IGH-SPEED Digital to Analog (D/A) converters are essential components in digi- Htal communication systems providing the necessary conversion of signals encoding information in bits to signals encoding information in their amplitude vs.

Design of Wireless Autonomous Dataloggers IC's reveals the state of the art in the design of complex dataloggers, with a special focus on low power consumption.

The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) provides a standard machine processable notation for describing hardware. VAL (VHDL Annotation Language) is a simple further step in the evolution of hardware description languages in the direction of applying new methods that have developed since VHDL was designed.

Autonomous agents or multiagent systems are computational systems in which several computational agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks. The problem solver cannot adapt to the dynamically changing goals and the problem solver cannot cooperatively solve problems with other problem solvers.

The UNIX and real-time UNIX operating system technologies are major examples of emerging technologies with great potential benefits but unrealistic expectations. General-purpose UNIX will exist only as a subset of real-time UNIX.

Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), an area of extreme research interest in recent years, extends the semantics of Prolog in such a way that the combinatorial explosion, a characteristic of most problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence, can be tackled efficiently.

Computer-Aided Design Techniques for Low Power Sequential Logic Circuits then presents a survey of methods to optimize logic circuits for low power dissipation which target reduced switching activity.

They cover a comprehensive range of software visualization topics, including *Visual programming theory and techniques for rapid software prototyping and graph visualization, including distributed programming;

Contains scientific papers covering a range of topics in systems and control. This title addresses the following research topics: distributed parameter systems, stochastic control, filtering and estimation, optimization and optimal control, image processing and vision, hierarchical systems and hybrid control, nonlinear systems, and linear systems.

in Chapter 1, while value locality of SPECJVM98 benchmarks are characterized by Rychlik et al. SPECJVM98 benchmarks are visited again in Chapter 3, where Tao et al. In Chapter 4, KleinOsowski et al. In Chapter 6, Thornock et al.

Instead of promoting the one language that will solve all design problems (which does not and will not ever exist), this book takes the view that different problems demand different languages, and a designer who knows the spectrum of available languages has the advantage over one who is trapped using the wrong language.